An American Family History

The ancestors of Elizabeth Powers Davis Griswold were Puritans who came to Massachusetts for freedom from the Church of England. Walter Powers and Trial Shepard settled in Littleton, Massachusetts. Nathan Fiske settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The Jennings and Stanhope settled in Sudbury where a major battle of King Philip's war was fought in 1676.

• William Fry
• Thomasin Fry Meigs
• Mary Fry Harris
• Hannah Fry Rawlins

• Martha Fiske Underwood
• Nathan Fiske

Ralph & Thanklord Shepard 1632

Deacon Ralph Shepard
Thanklord Shepard

England
Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Dedham, Norfork County, Massachusetts
Weymouth, Norfork County, Massachusetts
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Sarah Shepard
• Thomas Shepard
• John Shepard
• Isaac Shepard
• Trial Shepard Powers
• Abraham Shepard
• Thankful Shepard Dill
• Jacob Shepard

William & Elizabeth Fry 1638

Elizabeth Fry Dagget

Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts

• Elizabeth Fry Fiske
• Mary Fry Pierce

Thomas and Elizabeth Daggett

Thomas Daggett

• Hannah Daggett Blanchard
• Sarah Daggett Sherman
• Samuel Daggett

Nathan and Susannah Fiske 1640

Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Lieutenant Nathan Fiske
• John Fiske
• David Fiske
• Nathaniel Fiske
• Sarah Fiske Gale

Lieutenant Nathan Fiske and Elizabeth Fry 1644

Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Nathan Fiske
• Elizabeth Fiske Ball
• Martha Fiske Parks
• Deacon Nathan Fiske
• Susannah Fiske
• Abigail Fiske Mixer
• William Fiske
• William Fiske
• Anna Fiske

Jonathan Stanhope and Susannah Ayer 1656

Ensign Jonathan Stanhope

Susannah Ayer

Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Hannah Stanhope Jennings
• Jonathan Stanhope, Jr.
• Sarah Stanhope
• Joseph Stanhope
• Jemima Stanhope Rutter
• Mary Stanhope
• Rebecca Stanhope Hemenway

Walter Powers and Trial Shepard 1660

Walter Powers

The Will of Walter Powers

Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• William Powers
• Mary Powers Wheeler
• Captain Isaac Powers
• Thomas Powers
• Lieutenant Daniel Powers
• Increase Powers
• Walter Powers, Jr.
• Jacob Powers
• Sarah Powers Barron

Stephen Jennings & Hannah Stanhope 1686

Ensign Stephen Jennings

Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Eunice Jennings Fiske Johnson
• Stephen Jennings
• Hannah Jennings Walker
• Martha Jennings Dedman
• Sarah Jennings

• Joseph Powers
• Elizabeth Powers Farr

Thomas Powers & Mary Harwood 1702

Mary Harwood Powers

Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

• Phineas Powers
• Ephraim Powers
• Jane Powers Davis
• James Powers
• Jeremiah Powers

• William Fiske
• Hannah Fiske Powers
• Stephen Fiske
• Nathan Fiske

Jeremiah Powers and Hannah Fiske 1730
Quabbin/Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

• Hannah Powers White
• Captain Jeremiah Powers, II
• Eunice Powers Bridges
• Captain Isaac Powers
• Aaron Powers
• Esther Powers Gibbs
• Elizabeth Powers Davis Griswold and Stephen Griswold
• Nathan Powers
• Susannah Powers Hinds
• Colonel Thomas Powers

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